Dec, 1906] Dyar and Knab: LarwE of Culicid^. 227 



predaceous on the other larvae living in the Bromelia leaves. The 

 identification is by Mr. Coquillett; we have no means of cheeking it. 



Genus WYEOMYIA Theobald 



Wyeomyia Theobald, Mon. Culic, ii, 267, 1901. 

 Limatus Theobald, Mon. Culic, ii, 349, 1901. 



Simondellea Laveran, in Simond, C. rend. heb. Soe. Biol., liv, 11 58, 1902. 

 Phoniomyia Theobald, Mon. Culic., iii, 311, 1903. 

 Dendromyia Theobald, Mon. Culic., iii, 313, 1903. 



Table of species. 



1. Anal processes two, the upper pair aborted 2 



Anal processes equally developed 3 



2. Tube and plate without basal infuscation smithii 



Tube and plate with heavy black basal ring asullepia 



3. Lateral comb of the eighth segment of six separate teeth durhami 



Lateral comb of the eighth segment of many teeth in a long line 4 



4. Comb a long row of single teeth, nowhere doubled 5 



Comb of teeth in a band, at least in part two rows deep 7 



5. Tube with delicate scattered tufts, dark with pale tip grayii 



Tube with coarse single hairs, all pale 6 



6. Air tube 3^ x 1 ; spines of comb scales shorter than the base . . . .ochrura 

 Air tube 5x1; spines of comb scales longer than the base . . . .telestica 



7. Tube with short spines resembling pecten, 8 



Tube without false pecten 9 



8. Pecten of the air tube 3 spines preceded by a hair ulocoma 



Pecten of the air tube without preceding hair autocratica 



9. Tube strongly tapered outwardly; tube and plate without black ring. 



longirostris 

 Tube straight, tapered only near tip; tube and plate with back basal 



r j n(r aporonoma 



10. Tube and plate with black basal ring; subventral tuft short. . . .aporonoma 

 Tube and plate without black ring; subventral tuft long hcmisagnosta 



Wyeomyia smithii Coquillett. Fig. 68. 



Culcx pungcns Smith, (not Wiedemann), in Howard, Mosq., 83-90, 1901. 



Smith, Ent. news, xii, 93, 125, 1901. 



Aedes fuscus Smith, (not Osten-Sacken),Ent. news xii, 189, 220, 1901. 



Aedes smithii Coquillett, Can. ent., xxxiii, 260, 1901. 



Aedes smithii Smith, Ent. news, xii, 254, 1901. 



Aedes smithii Dyar, Journ. N. Y. ent. soc, ix, 178, 1901. 



Aedes smithii Smith, Journ. N. Y. ent. soc, x, 10, 1902. 



Aedes smithii Dyar, Proc ent. soc. Wash., v, 51, 1902. 



Aedes smithii Johannsen, Bull. 68, N. Y. Sta. Mus., 426, 1903. 



Verrallina ? smithii Theobald, Mon. Culic, iii, 295., 1903. 



